That email definitely won't create damage! / Bob Dylan liner notes

Interesting rack of the night: FINEPANS, against Angela V. [read as "fine pans"]

High-scoring words of the night:

GOOFIER (108 points) - against Jennifer W. [two 3W]
REWINDS (150 points) - against Rachel G. [2W, 5W] {a good deficit-erasing word!}
HOYAS (208 points) - against Nathalie C. [4W, two 2W]


What with making a peanut butter sandwich for dinner, deciding what to pack at the last minute, and finalizing my touches on posts, I thought I'd be late to meet Eric even though he didn't specify a time. I ended up waiting for him for about ten minutes - thank goodness I packed a book! Eric beeped at me, and of course made me sit on his Kleenex box! I told him that I'd had to send Jeremy a "damage control" email because of what Jon and Harmony had said, so he wondered whether they were joking, and WHY they'd tell him that! I don't think they were joking, and I don't know why they'd tell him that, especially since he'd had no idea what was going on. Then he said that the email might be damage CREATION rather than damage CONTROL; I don't think it will. Jeremy seems like the type of person to be cool with it if I ask him on Friday whether he got the email or not. Eric and I also discussed Randal, people pissing me off, whether I'd eaten food (I'd packed it), and other things before Jen called to ask whether we needed a lot of food because she had Goldfish snacks for us. I couldn't hear half of what she said - it's the reception!

We got to church, and Pastor John let us in. Johnny ended up not being there AGAIN, and Dylan was really tired from being up at 5 AM. I bet he couldn't concentrate on much, thus why he got Eric to take over. Kevin was counting a pile of money when we got to the lounge, and we joked that he really wanted the financial report to be up-to-the-minute! Discussed hiking (I might absent myself this year), programs, Jon, Andrea and Chuck's wedding affecting a program the night before, wedding overkill (Jen agrees - DON'T ALL GET MARRIED IN THE SAME YEAR!), small group outings (Eric later joked that he'd get Mr. Creep and Raymond to join our group, while getting Dave Wong and Jeremy to join other groups for the night - DON'T YOU DARE!), the retreat, sharing, Uncle Hansel, Randal, Elaine and Matt in China, missions, Vania's cousin Christine, Jon and SERVANTS, accountability, and other things. I'll definitely remind Christon's group about snacks later on. We were all surprised when we ended at 8:40, so Pastor John jokingly blamed it on Dylan... but last time when Dylan WAS here, we'd ended at that time too!

On the way home, I told Eric that I didn't want people like Raymond in my life, and he thought that Raymond had perhaps over-reacted. I'd agree with THAT wholeheartedly! Then he thought that I should send Raymond an email to say that I'm sorry that he felt that way... after eleven months?! You have GOT to be kidding me! I know he blocked me on Facebook because of the communication through over-tagging, and if he's smart, he'll probably have done the same to my personal email address! No way that I'm going to send him an email, and then ask him on Friday whether he got it or not... I don't want to be ignored, not even to confirm the fact that I'm still being ignored! He wondered if I'd pre-packed.. definitely so! Noted that it was now JACK BAUER hour (at shortly after 9), so I figured I'd watch the last half hour or whatever when I got to the townhouse, and then watch the first bit tomorrow online. Not sure what Auntie Teresa thought of the torture scene audio, hahaha. He forgot to go to Subway, but figured he'd just eat pizza at home - sounds sensible! Crazy times, haha. I made sure to thank him for stopping by my place briefly, too... although he did make me scream at him for his suggestions about how I could make innocent "casual encounters" more bearable with Raymond. I guess he doesn't have friends who go on a certain section of Craigslist all the time! (and I misread "promo" and "porno" again - doesn't mean I see "porno" all the time! :P) Then he wondered whether we could invite ourselves over to Steph's for the JACK BAUER series finale in a couple of weeks - I've just emailed her as per his suggestion, heh. He also said that the Kleenex box was mine because of my butt imprint - whatever! Stephen Ng is not Stephanie Ng, even thought the shape of the words is similar!

Mom and Dad also gave me some random stuff in a bag, and said that Grandma would give me money: Rice Works sea salt chips, fettuccine Alfredo Sidekicks, Chicken Sidekicks, Yamata spicy pea kernels (I'm assuming these are wasabi peas), Hevy D's light old-fashioned kettle popcorn, Uncle Ben's Bistro Express long grain and wild rice in mushroom flavor x2, Old Dutch multigrain chips, two cans of Vienna sausages, clean mint Colgate Total toothpaste, Trident Splash spearmint-watermelon gum, and tangerine-grapefruit Crystal Light. Auntie Teresa saw all this stuff, and lectured me about diets / exercise / junk food / consequences... ah, mothers! I'm not going to lie - the food will help when I get back home, that's for sure! Also noticed that Brian P. (tbone) is back on Facebook - I'd wondered why my friends list had one more person on it! Speaking of small group outings, Cindy's emailed us to "remind" us of a discussion we supposedly had about a month ago about a potluck brunch at Dylan and Deb's place. It starts at 11 AM (?!), and then she proposes that we walk around Granville Island afterwards. I don't even recall having such a discussion. With this (if Eric goes), Henry might not even need to give me a ride - we'll see. At least I'm at the townhouse, so I guess I could get something from the fridge for a potluck when Auntie Teresa leaves, like plenty of oranges! Looks like I'll have to call Eric before Friday if he doesn't RSVP to the email, haha. Then again, I've just thought that Grandma might not be impressed with my being out all day, so I dunno.


Trivia fact for Tuesday, May 11: What top performer won a Grammy for writing the liner notes to Bob Dylan's country-rock album Nashville Skyline? Johnny Cash, in 1969. The award was for Best Album Notes.